The prehistoric rattle found in Russia It looks like some toys are timeless and will appeal to todays children as much as they did yesterday. The one found a few weeks ago in a Russian archaeological site is a rattle belonged to a baby lived about 4000 years ago. It is a clay object wi
Some of the melon seeds found in Sardinia The Sardinians were the first to cultivate melon in Europe? It would seem so according to the discovery in a well of Sa Osa (Cabras, Oristano), of 47 melon seeds dating back to a period between 1310 and 1120 BC. (Bronze Age). The discovery is ver
Engraving of aurochs on stone (the image does not refer to the discovery of which the post is about, but to the cave of the Romito) It was recently found in France a ancient engraving depicting a auroch on a stone plate, an artifact dating back to about 38000 years ago. The animal is repre
Prehistoric cuisine. Cheese was an almost certainly accidental discovery The cheese it is one of those foods that have accompanied man since the dawn of civilization. Most scholars believe that its origins date back to prehistoric times, when it was discovered by pure chance (as it happened,
Rock carvings discovered in Saudi Arabia The dog he is mans best friend, we have always known this, but the novelty is that this bond could have been born much earlier than hypothesized to date. At least this is what the rock representations would show, if the dating were confirmed. recently
Pterosaurus eggs found in China Two hundred Pterosaur eggs recently found in the Gobi Desert , in China, by a team of paleontologists, could shed new light on the understanding of these creatures that lived on our planet millions of years ago. The Pterosaurs, or winged lizards , or o
The prehistoric pastel recently discovered in England Great Britain once again proves to be an inexhaustible source of prehistoric archaeological finds :It was buried under a few centimeters of peat for about 10,000 years, but was eventually found, a pastel recently unearthed by a team of
Oetzi at the time of his discovery, in 1991, among the ice of Similaun Oetzi, primitive man also known as Mummy of the Similaun , continues to reveal so much about himself and, in this way, also about the very distant time in which he lived (see also https://www.pilloledistoria.it/7218/preis
The Neolithic sieves found in Croatia Found in Croatia ceramic objects , very similar to sieves, dating back to about 7200 years ago , in full Neolithic. traces of milk fatty acids are still present on them , the oldest so far found in the Mediterranean basin, which suggests that they
The payment methods they have existed for centuries and have always played an important role within societies. Their evolution over the years has been considerable:we have gone from simple and physical barter to the difficult and abstract world of technological innovations . The technologi
Remains of prehistoric elephants in the quarries of Revadim, Israel The meals of the men of the Paleolithic they also included elephant meat. This is documented by the recent discovery in the Revadim quarries , in Israel , of the remains of fat and ribs of the aforementioned animals th
The beautiful prehistoric bracelet found in Siberia In 2008, in the Denisova Cave , near the Altai mountains, in Siberia , the body of a woman was found wearing a jewel, a green chlorite bracelet, which now, after careful analysis and in-depth studies, has been found to date back to about
The fossil pollen found on the tomb of the Red Lady in Spain The custom of bringing flowers to the dead is very ancient, more than we could have assumed, or probably, has existed since man himself has existed. The recent discovery is a clear demonstration of this , in a cave in Spain, of fo
One of the ancient stone tools recently discovered in Kenya They were recently discovered in Kenya some stone tools whose precise purpose is still being examined by scholars. However, it is certain that they date back to 3.3 million years ago, so they are about 700,000 years older than those
The fossil teeth found in Israel, containing the oldest traces of pollution found so far pollution its not just a modern problem, on the contrary. A recent discovery also contributes to demonstrating how old and consolidated the coexistence between human beings and harmful substances is occur
Sperm The spermatozoa of man survive for five days, but those produced by a small and unknown prehistoric worm now extinct have lasted much longer, as they were found intact by a group of archaeologists of various nationalities in Antarctica only a few months ago and are 50 million years old.
Neanderthal man hot water a luxury of our times? It certainly seems not, at least judging by a recent discovery made by researchers from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, who analyzing a prehistoric shelter on the site of Abric Romani in Catalonia (Spain), t
Reconstruction of the physiognomy of Lucy, the specimen of Australopithecus afarensis found in Africa 41 years ago Today Google celebrate with one of her beautiful doodle themed, the 41st anniversary of one of the most important discoveries always, the remains of an Australopithecus af
The footprints of Homo erectus recently discovered in Eritrea A research coordinated by the University of Rome La Sapienza and the National Museum of Eritrea , led to the discovery of the first footprints of Homo erectus . These are traces left on the sand of a lake around which, 800,000
Prehistoric camp. Traces of rudimentary cigarettes have recently been found in one of them An interesting discovery recently covered a desert area in Utah (USA), where a team of scholars found a camp used by human hunters and gatherers who lived approximately 12,300 years ago. The most
New tombs have just been unearthed in the arid regions of northern Peru, where stand the impressive ceremonial centers of one of the most powerful civilizations prior to the Incas, that of the Mochicas. Tomb of a Mochica military leader discovered near Chiclayo, in northern Peru. Long before the
Off the coast of Kasos Island, east of Crete in the Dodecanese, archaeologists found several ancient shipwrecks, including a Roman ship from the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD. whose cargo consisted of oil amphorae from ceramic workshops in the Iberian Peninsula. The amphorae were made in workshops around
The tragedy occurred in the Seto Sea, in Japan, and the victim was probably a fisherman:more than 790 injuries were recorded on his body. The great white shark is possibly responsible for this 3000 year old attack. He was buried between between 1370 and 1010 BC in the cemetery of Tsukumo. It is a
In his new book The forgotten ten millennia that made history, archaeologist Jean-Paul Demoule looks back on the Neolithic, a period of which he is a specialist. Jean-Paul Demoule, archaeologist, professor emeritus at the University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, president of the National Institut